32. - (1) This section applies if a person requiring leave to enter the United Kingdom arrives in the United Kingdom by ship, aircraft, road passenger vehicle or train and, on being required to do so by an immigration officer, fails to produce-

(a) a valid passport with photograph or some other document satisfactorily establishing his identity and nationality or citizenship; and

(b) if he requires a visa, a valid visa of the required kind.

(2) The Secretary of State may charge the owner of the ship, aircraft or vehicle or the train operator, in respect of that person, the sum of £2,000 or such other sum as may be prescribed.

(3) The charge is payable to the Secretary of State on demand.

(4) No charge is payable in respect of any person who is shown by the owner or train operator to have produced the required document or documents to him or his representative when embarking-

(a) on the ship or aircraft for the voyage or flight to the United Kingdom; or

(b) on the vehicle or train for the journey to the United Kingdom.

(5) No charge is payable by a train operator, or by the owner of a road passenger vehicle, in respect of a person ("A"), if he shows that-

(a) he had in place satisfactory arrangements (including, where appropriate, arrangements with other persons) designed to ensure that he did not carry passengers who did not, or might not, have documents of the required kind;

(b) all such steps as were practicable were taken in accordance with the arrangements to establish whether A had the required document or documents; and

(c) all such steps as were practicable were taken in accordance with the arrangements to prevent A's arrival in the United Kingdom where-

(i) A refused to produce the required document or documents to a person acting in accordance with the arrangements; or

(ii) for other reasons it appeared to that person that A did not, or might not, have the required document or documents.

(6) For the purposes of subsections (4) and (5), a document-

(a) is to be regarded as being what it purports to be unless its falsity is reasonably apparent; and

(b) is to be regarded as relating to the person producing it unless it is reasonably apparent that it relates to another person.

(7) Subsection (8) applies if-

(a) a person arrives in the United Kingdom in circumstances in which the Secretary of State is entitled to impose on the owner of a road passenger vehicle a charge under this section in respect of that person; and

(b) the vehicle arrived in the United Kingdom in a ship or aircraft.

(8) The Secretary of State may impose a charge in respect of the arrival of the vehicle, or a charge in respect of the arrival of the ship or aircraft, but not in respect of both.

(9) "Road passenger vehicle" means a vehicle-

(a) which is adapted to carry more than eight passengers and is being used for carrying passengers for hire or reward; or

(b) which is not so adapted but is being used for carrying passengers for hire or reward at separate fares in the course of a business of carrying passengers.

(10) For the purposes of this section a person requires a visa if-

(a) under the immigration rules he requires a visa for entry into the United Kingdom; or

(b) as a result of section 33 he requires a visa for passing through the United Kingdom.

(11) "Representative", in relation to a person, means an employee or agent of his.

Visas for transit passengers.

33. - (1) The Secretary of State may by order require transit passengers to hold a transit visa.

(2) "Transit passengers" means persons of any description specified in the order who on arrival in the United Kingdom pass through to another country without entering the United Kingdom; and "transit visa" means a visa for that purpose.

(3) The order-

(a) may specify a description of persons by reference to nationality, citizenship, origin or other connection with any particular country but not by reference to race, colour or religion;

(b) may not provide for the requirement imposed by the order to apply to any person who under the 1971 Act has the right of abode in the United Kingdom;

(c) may provide for any category of persons of a description specified in the order to be exempt from the requirement imposed by the order;

(d) may make provision about the method of application for visas required by the order.

Power to detain vehicles etc. in connection with charges under section 32.

(a) the transporter in which the person in respect of whom the charge was imposed was carried; or

(b) any other transporter used (on any route) in the course of providing a service of carriage of passengers by sea, air or land by the person on whom the charge was imposed.

(2) If a transporter is detained under subsection (1) it may continue to be detained pending payment of any connected expenses.

(3) The court may release the transporter if it considers that-

(a) satisfactory security has been tendered in place of the transporter for the payment of the charge alleged to be due and connected expenses; or

(b) there is a significant doubt as to whether the charge is payable and the applicant has a compelling need to have the transporter released.

(4) If the court has not ordered the release of the transporter, the Secretary of State may sell it if the charge in question and connected expenses are not paid before the end of the period of 84 days beginning with the date on which the detention began.

(5) The detention of a transporter under this section is lawful even though it is subsequently established that the imposition of the charge on which the detention was based was ill-founded.

(6) But subsection (5) does not apply if the Secretary of State was acting unreasonably in imposing the charge.

(7) "Connected expenses" means expenses reasonably incurred by the Secretary of State in connection with the detention.

(8) Schedule 1 applies to the sale of transporters under this section.

Interpretation

Interpretation of Part II.

35. In this Part-

"aircraft" includes hovercraft;

"captain" means the master of a ship or commander of an aircraft;

"concealed" includes being concealed in any freight, stores or other thing carried in or on the vehicle, ship or aircraft concerned;

"court" means-

(a) in England and Wales, the county court or the High Court;

(b) in Scotland, the sheriff or the Court of Session;

(c) in Northern Ireland, the county court or the High Court;

"detached trailer" means a trailer, semi-trailer, caravan or any other thing which is designed or adapted for towing by a vehicle but which has been detached for transport-

(a) in or on the vehicle concerned; or

(b) in the ship or aircraft concerned (whether separately or in or on a vehicle);

"equipment", in relation to an aircraft, includes-

(a) any certificate of registration, maintenance or airworthiness of the aircraft;

(b) any log book relating to the use of the aircraft; and

(c) any similar document;

"hirer", in relation to a vehicle, means any person who has hired the vehicle from another person;

"operating weight", in relation to an aircraft, means the maximum total weight of the aircraft and its contents at which the aircraft may take off anywhere in the world, in the most favourable circumstances, in accordance with the certificate of airworthiness in force in respect of the aircraft;

"owner" includes-

(a) in relation to a ship or aircraft, the agent or operator of the ship or aircraft; and

(b) in relation to a road passenger vehicle, the operator of the vehicle; and

in relation to a transporter which is the subject of a hire-purchase agreement, includes the person in possession of it under that agreement;